From Refuge to Ruin

Regime obscene, another pleasant nightmare. Behold untold vile obsessions (and bloodshed) Believer deceiver, of promises you've broken Unspoken refrains of a cancerous lie. The poisoned crown of strengths unbound Procession of evil, hypocrisy on high. The poisoned crown of strengths unbound Procession of evil, freedom slowly dies. Stirring up unrest Waves of dissent crest And Crash on down [Chorus:] Watch the scourge infect the world Black flags and altars Crawling towards its languid host, A plague takes its toll With blood on the throne room walls. This can't go on, it's not the way I see it This game they play, I'll wage insurgence And to the barons of oppression I shout Defiance at the sky. This plague must die. The poisoned crown of strengths unbound Procession of evil, hypocrisy on high. The poisoned crown of strengths unbound Procession of evil, freedom slowly dies. [Chorus:] Watch the scourge infect the world Black flags and altars Crawling towards its languid host, A plague takes its toll With blood on the throne room walls.

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025

A broken body lies upon the ground. But still in twilight motion can be found Red lines of crimson blood stream down my hands The final grasp of life on liquid strands. In your eyes I can see Rage, cold and frozen No remorse for your deeds. Over the edge I sent you falling down An act of self defense away from harm Our last disclosure still hanging in the air Seduction of an innocent in tears. Left within are agony, chaos and despair. Shattered limbs and broken lives Say goodbye one last time. [Chorus:] The world of shadows fills my eyes And as I dream in vengeance, for your past I care not. So take your last breath as you fall. And as I dream in vengeance, for your past I care not. I see my own reflection in the pool. Around your body, growing slowly, death is coming soon. We fall into the fading night. The sirens howl with burning lights. And for the end that comes to bear Awake, a dream I do not care. Alone tonight obsession takes its toll. Left within are agony, chaos and despair. Shattered limbs and broken lives Say goodbye one last time. [Chorus:] The world of shadows fills my eyes And as I dream in vengeance, for your past I care not. So take your last breath as you fall. And as I dream in vengeance, for your past I care not.

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

Out from the dark you came to me Like a courtesan of grace and beauty Pleasure me, enlighten me Become my every fantasy and be away... a cold and distant state And as the final curtain falls Do you contemplate the role you played and stole? [Chorus:] Prepare the stage And play your own psychotic masquerade All entwined In crimson hues, the self which you’ve defined All the same You paint the portrait of your masquerade All entwined In crimson hues, your altered state of mind And then at once you ceased to be Like a stranger then, devoid of empathy Turn from me, and lie to me, Become the face of our entropy and hate... expressionless decay And as the final curtain falls Do you contemplate the role you played and stole? [Chorus:] Prepare the stage And play your own psychotic masquerade All entwined In crimson hues, the self which you’ve defined All the same You paint the portrait of your masquerade All entwined In crimson hues, your altered state of mind

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

In total corruption the parasites feed Taking the lifeblood as they need From those who'd surrender at the end of the gun, Perversion of mankind has begun. Neurotic deceiver, deceive what existence sells. Nomadic believer, believe what desire tells. [Chorus:] Overload, the system explodes. In the shade of devastation dark seeds grow. Methodic pleas of insanity Cultivate abomination, your dark seeds. (Depravity) Bathed in the red light down on your knees Integrity seems a foreign dream Humiliation for one night of bliss Dionysus' deadly kiss. How can you even face yourself? (My inner demons won't let go.) A beggar cloaked in unearned wealth [Chorus:] Overload, the system explodes. In the shade of devastation dark seeds grow. Methodic pleas of insanity Cultivate abomination, your dark seeds. (Depravity) Accepting that our culture is Just human nature is a foolish lie, the death of pride. Through all the ages, we've one tendency: survive. Neurotic deceiver, deceive what existence sells. Nomadic believer, believe what desire tells. How can you even face yourself? (My inner demons won't let go.) A beggar cloaked in unearned wealth [Chorus:] Overload, the system explodes. In the shade of devastation dark seeds grow. Methodic pleas of insanity Cultivate abomination, your dark seeds. (Depravity)

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

Fate of salvation, you pathetic lie Death paints destruction into everybody's lives. Leaving behind them far, far away The ashes of everyone led astray. [Chorus:] Those born with less, less than a chance From odds they are up against Masses to the west fleeing the stench of oppression. Anthems to ideals perverting man An age old widespread sickness Found in the snow and in the sand. We all keep on running. Yeah we all keep on running. Still we keep on running, But the plague stays right behind us anyway. [Chorus:] Those born with less, less than a chance From odds they are up against Masses to the west fleeing the stench of oppression. Wastelands, war games, Ww keep giving blame. Classes, races, famine sadly just man... Sadly, just man. Though it's treacherous, forward we carry on. Through perilous wastelands in hope to find our way home. Are we left for dead? Are we space between the stars? Are we standing still? I can't find it in my heart. Will you persevere with strength from an ideal of hope? (With courage and pride) We're coming home. Can you find the strength though you're torn apart? You were left for dead, find it in your heart. Rise above this rage and their despotic gaze And fight another day on this desolate and lonely road we're on. We never belonged on this desolate and lonely road we're on.

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025

Welcome to your world of rejection Where your truth rings forth as hollow words. Difficult to look out from the inside Alienating all the ones you've burned Delusions of grandeur, stubborn insecurity Consumed by your twisted inflatable ego disease. All alone your search of validation While your projected fears wreak havoc on the weak. Incisive gossip fueled with rancor Every lie you tell yourself sustains you as you speak. In a fog of self deception in the safety of your home Who are you to stand in judgement of the ones you do not know? [Chorus:] Never mistake kindness for weakness Or silence for stupidity Best you withdraw that pointed finger Lest ye be judged Insanity - Audacity - Careless and self-serving Duplicity - Toxicity - Penetrates the thickest skin Hostility - Nihility - misdirected anger Silently, passively, fear disrups your every thought. Drifting through your fabricated worlds... Audacity - Insanity - Only seeing black and white Hostility - Nihility - Malignant narcissistic chaos Poisonous pity, a negative clown This chip on your shoulder keeps weighing you down. Your low self esteem keeps its grip on your soul As your shattered spirit spins out of control And soon in the end, all is lost and you're gone With no lasting impact, remembered by none. In a fog of self deception in the safety of your home Who are you to stand in judgement of the ones you do not know? And within your self-delusion, thick with self-justified arrogance Painting yourself into a corner Where you will forever remain alone. [Chorus 2:] Never mistake weakness for kindness Or cowardice for sanity Best you retract your every word now Lest ye be judged.

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

What men call hatred I can't explain. Who in society is to blame? The self destruction that I see Goes on and on and on in misery. Still the hunger, numb the pain It's all we are, always the same 'Till the soil blacken the earth It's all we are, in death and birth When I see bloodshed pouring like rain And I se infants starved and slain I see the tyrants cloaked like sheep Telling us all we're kings of peasantry Still the hunger, numb the pain It's all we are, always the same 'Till the soil blacken the earth It's all we are, in death and birth [Chorus:] Falling far, we're far enough but still remain Carry on, into our darkest days What men call hatred I can't explain Who in society is to blame? The self destruction that I see Goes on and on and on for centuries Still the hunger, numb the pain It's all we are, always the same 'Till the soil blacken the earth It's all we are, in death and birth [Chorus:] Falling far, we're far enough but still remain Carry on, into our darkest days

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

Losing my grasp I walk away But now looking back, there's so much to say Still in my darkest hours you stayed Haunting my thoughts still to this day Cold is the gaze that pierces Like a nail through the cross And eyes, frozen eyes of dispassion Speak louder than words of hatred and lies With sewn shut lips and bloodshed eyes We burn the bridge of what was once our lives [Chorus:] From the remains I will arise And shed not a tear for black hearts demise Now with this chasm between us Growing further and farther We try, all in vain to recapture What once was so pure, but weak as ice With sewn shut lips and bloodshed eyes We burn the bridge of what was once our lives [Chorus:] From the remains I will arise And shed not a tear for black hearts demise

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

[I - Reconciliation] Night betrayed the day I collapsed into my shell As the scars reshaped my face Mercy reared its head And forgiveness lost its charm As the cries at once fell dead And if in the shards that surround me One fragment of hope remains If these paranoid wishes have come unchained Better to wish them away Better to save this last embrace And give this nightmare closure Ghosts of madness fled And the master lost his breath As the fear inside fell dead... [II - Mother Of Agony] Now forever laid in this pristine grave, They whisper their tirades Children of tragedy cry blasphemies, invisible and unclean. So still in the presence of majesty You will offer yourself to me, give in to me. In a prison designed by me, frozen in fright at the sight of me Now you will listen to me Angel of the darkness created by me Now you shall see Better to quietly embrace the dancing fires And learn to bathe yourself in pools of my desires Mother of agony, now atrophies Our union transcending days Naked, in a state of emergency Sweat feeding my urgency, give it to me Submit to this tragedy unholy nymph - you bleed for me Streaming like tears down your thighs Now ever so gracefully washing me clean Whisper to me Better to readily embrace these raging fires And learn to drown yourself in seas of my desires [III - Endless Surrender] By the bed the stench is best Under tattered sheets we are blessed The decay of dignity augments your unrest Cloaked in silence, you cling to me Soon you come to know loyalty Serving me eternally in our den of beauty Ever deceived by fate, suspended behind this gate Anguish becoming me, endless surrender shapes me [IV - Distorted Forms] Twisted silhouettes and shadows grace the room The sunlight has abandoned me The hours are blurred, consciousness burns This is my family The lifeblood drains from me Forging this grim reality, we fall into place, Now we're... Licking the skin (Aging within) Soiling the whore (Tainting my fears) Twisting the skin (Descent within) Boiling the core (Tasting my tears) Peeling the skin (Dying within) Begging for more (Raping my soul) Burning the skin (Decay within) (Changing my soul) Forever closing the door on perverse impurities Father - Fracture - Failure [V - Descent Within] Pulsating thoughts impact like thunder Mind going under Despair rips me asunder The ever fading voice of reason Devoid and bleeding Piercing numbness blinds my eyes Our fantasies are weak and crumbling Hope stays for one thing: I know the end is coming Daughter - Damage Danger Better to cleanse this tainted world of its disease And sacrifice sanity I have been stripped of all but nothing's stopping me Destiny's wrath ignites my soul [VI - Ghosts Of Madness] Night betrays the day, I am timeless (save me) Mercy hides its face, turns away (raped me) Ghosts of madness come, and their words (soothe me) Master breathes his fear (fear) and the choking starts Regret subdues my demons, purges my desires Bright flames of lust subsiding, woven curse unravels flawed designs I can see your face turn to grey (it pains me) I can see your fear slowly fading (it scathes me) Undone, the monster cowers loosening its grip Overcome by searing weakness, turning to a sharp and blinding light [VII - Children Of Failed Gods' Dismay] Cut these chains of fractured days Suffer the children yet he stays I can see the ending tearing away from myself Breaking shackles, fighting fate Prisoners in this perfect grave Sanctify this union, children of failed gods' dismay Moments lapse, burning sweat fills my anguished eyes These pains revive me Rage inside me guides my hand so swift and unrestrained Better to recklessly abandon final hope As the cleansing fires engulf your soul

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025